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[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 points 8 months ago

Can you explain how potatoes led to hotdigs?

[-] TerrificTadpole@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

At one point when people on Twitter were arguing about the historical accuracy of LGBT+ groups in a DnD setting, I made the argument that anyone who includes potatoes in their setting doesn't care about historical accuracy anyway. This led to a discussion about what would be missing from a medieval setting and the conclusion that a "historically accurate" DnD setting would have gay people, but not potatoes. This became a running joke.

Fast forward a few months, and during a fair there's a vendor selling "sausages in a bun, topped with mustard sauce or sauerkraut." The players caught on to them being hotdogs, and it sparked another discussion about what foods were available in a "historically accurate" setting.

(Which, all those ingredients would have been available to the setting, even of they weren't eaten in that configuration.)

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

Sausage (at least forcemeat in casing) dates to Mesopotamia, 3000BCE.

I don't think the innovative leap to put that sausage in between bread is a world-breaking defiling of historical accuracy, personally.

[-] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Humanity has been putting sausages between buns since the beginning of time.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

Don't forget that pizza was a thing before tomatoes were introduced to Italy. They just used a different fruit for the sauce

[-] Archpawn@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

If I were a player, I would have asked if it's a sandwich. Just to watch the world burn.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

At one point when people on Twitter were arguing about the historical accuracy of LGBT+ groups in a DnD setting

Why wasn't your first response to gesture broadly towards ancient Greece? Homosexual relationships were fairly normal and marriage was mainly for having children.

In a strictly medieval Europe setting there's documented examples of homosexual relationships, but they weren't normal due to suppression by the catholic church

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

And on that argument: being queer is normal. Queer happens. Bigotry is what's specific to a culture.

[-] bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 6 points 8 months ago

Yes, but we are in a world of magic, who says yeast has to work the way it does here. Can we just assume queer people have bread to make hot dogs in this world?

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